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Personal information

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If you choose to supply your e-mail address along with your other personal details, this will only be used to contact you about matters specific to this website. It will not be supplied to third parties and is not displayed on the site.

Use of cookies

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This site may store the following cookies on your computer. One of these is essential to the site's operation and will be stored automatically:

ASP.Net_SessionId - this cookie will expire when you close your browser

Others will be stored only after approval has been given, either explicitly by clicking on a option to accept cookies from this site (see below) or implicitly by registration as a contributor:

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Third party cookies

The site's search facility uses an embedded Google Custom Search Engine, which will cause one or more Google cookies to be stored. This is only active after approval has been given.

Where videos are embedded from YouTube, they are done so using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube's embedding videos information page.

Where content is embedded from other sources, such as Vimeo or British Pathé, those sources may store cookies as a consequence. Where available, we will add links to their privacy policies here:

Web site tracking

Whenever you visit our web site, our host server automatically records each page you visit and the IP address from which you are connecting to us. It also records other information, including your operating system, your web browser, and the web site from which you followed a link to this website (if any).

Additionally, the Google Analytics reporting system is active when you have either logged in as a contributor or allowed this site to store cookies.

This information is only gathered to establish general usage trends for the site, not to find out information about individual users.

Other sites

This site may contain links to other sites which are outside our control and are not covered by this privacy policy. If you access these sites using the links provided, the operators of the sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy.